Introducing “My Mother’s Story”, a project founded by Vancouver actress Marilyn Norry, who began it years ago with an invitation:

Write the story of your mother’s life – just the facts from beginning to end – in less than 2,000 words, where you are just a footnote. When you are finished, and when you are ready, read your story out loud to at least one person. 

Gone Too Soon features 20 stories by women and men around the world who were bereaved as children and adolescents by the loss of their mothers. As well as their mothers’ life stories, they’ve written Author Reflections about the healing they found through ‘finding’ their mothers again through their journey to tell their mother’s story.

The fascination of this project, of this the book,  is the experience each child goes through, looking at their mother as a separate, complete person unto herself.

The book My Mother’s Story: Gone Too Soon, with a Foreward by Marilyn Norry and a Preface with Michelle Hohn, Editor and Contributing Author, was  released in March 2022. This is what we’re celebrating today with this podcast.

The above photo of Hilda and Eric Hardie, Jenn Griffin’s parents.

Here, in this podcast, I read the story of Doris, as told by her daughter, Colleen Winton. A tiny, tiny bit of editing was necessary with the final cut and including the wonderful sound design by Gordon Halloran. This is one to sit back and enjoy! Kudos to Colleen Winton and here’s to Doris Mary Oliveen Kerr, her wonderful mother.